As someone who grew up and lives in Manitoba, some of this rings false. The temperature was described as -35F (-34C). People that wander away from their cars in

As someone who grew up and lives in Manitoba, some of this rings false. The temperature was described as -35F (-34C). People that wander away from their cars inadequately dressed for that sort of condition only technically die of hypothermia. They mostly die of the complications of having their extremities frozen. They don't tend to have enough time to go though the stages of hypothermia. There would be no time to drift off to crazy land, they would know things were going wrong right away. In the same vein, if they don't have a scarf or other face protection (which for some reason was the case for the skier in the article) and there was any wind they will immediately freeze their face. This can take less than a minute. This is incredibly painful and could be expected to cause pretty much anyone to get back in the car.